by jburns | May 19, 2015 | Copyright
The creator of an animated short film, The Snowman, has sued the Walt Disney Co. for copyright infringement based on her trailer for the hugely-successful animated movie, Frozen.[1] While The Snowman and Frozen have a few similarities, such as a snowman who loses his...
by jburns | Apr 12, 2015 | Copyright, Entertainment Law
The unauthorized and hardcore (it’s even in the title now) version of the Power Rangers[1], seen in a short from the director Joseph Kahn and starring James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff, garnered a lot of Hollywood buzz in the last few weeks as well as a number of...
by jburns | Apr 6, 2015 | Copyright
Left Shark, the uncontested star of Katy Perry’s Super bowl Halftime performance, swam into our hearts and Twitter feeds with its endearingly flubbed dance moves. The social media firestorm following the performance quickly made Left Shark a pop culture icon, spurring...
by jburns | Mar 31, 2015 | Copyright
Please see fellow Senior Staff Writer Sandra Rubinchik’s article, “Blurred Lines” Jury Ruling Unlikely to Set Legal Precedent in Music Industry, for another viewpoint on this issue. Tuesday, March 10, 2015, Robin Thick and Pharrell Williams lost their copyright...
by jburns | Mar 30, 2015 | Copyright
Please see fellow Senior Staff Writer Kristina DiBenedetto’s article, “Even Blurrier Lines,” for another viewpoint on this issue. On Tuesday, March 10th, a California federal jury determined that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had non-willfully...
